Privacy Policy

THE NW DAILY MARKER’S PRIVACY POLICY

The NW Daily Marker is the owner and operator of NWDailyMarker.com (the Website), a website providing original reporting, updated links to the latest news, analysis of current events, and contributions from many notable commentators and civic leaders on national and Pacific Northwest regional issues.

This Privacy Policy (Policy) is about the information that NW DAILY MARKER collects, uses, and stores in operating the Website and making content available to you. This Policy applies to information that is collected on or through NWDailyMarker.com, as well as information that we collect offline.

NWDailyMarker.com is operated entirely within the United States. If you are located outside of the United States, please note that any information – including personal data – you provide to us will be transferred to and processed in the United States. You hereby consent to these transfers.

NW DAILY MARKER collects non-personally identifiable information automatically through the use of electronic tools such as web beacons, “cookies”, and clickstream data that are deployed on the Website.

Web Beacons – A web beacon is a type of picture file used on the Internet. Web beacons are used in combination with cookies to help monitor traffic at NWDailyMarker.com and understand the ways in which users interact with content on the website.

Cookies – Cookies help provide a customized Web experience by enabling us to identify web users, but not specific individuals, who visit our website. You may choose not to provide such information by adjusting your Internet browser security settings to refuse cookies. Refusing cookies, however, may limit your ability to access certain pages and feature available on the website.

Clickstream Data – In addition, NW DAILY MARKER may use third-party software to analyze the Web pages that your computer visits while visiting the website. This information, called “clickstream data,” is associated with your computer’s Internet protocol (IP) address and includes other information such as the type of browser your computer uses to access the Internet. We collect clickstream data to optimize search engine results and may also use clickstream data to analyze which portions of our website draw the most traffic so we can improve performance of our websites. This clickstream data may be shared with third party advertisers and marketing companies.

IP Addresses – Although NW DAILY MARKER usually does not use IP addresses as a means to identify specific individuals, we may use IP addresses to help identify you or the computer you are using when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy, other NW DAILY MARKER policies, or to protect our services, website, systems, information, employees, business partners, providers, users, customers or others.

NW DAILY MARKER may collect certain types of personally identifiable information — that is, information that can identify an individual — including but not limited to:

name;

e-mail address;

date of birth;

zip code;

credit or debit card information;

username; and

password;

We may collect some or all of this information if you:

visit the website and make inquiries through the Website;

purchase products or services on the Website;

share your e-mail address to subscribe to email newsletters;

share personal information when you post comments, messages, letters and the like on the Website;

participate in any surveys, contests, or sweepstakes sponsored by NW DAILY MARKER;
register on NWDailyMarker.com;

share personal information when you provide tips, comments or questions to our news department; or

provide it to us when contacting us about this Privacy Policy.

II. HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION?

We use your personally identifiable information for various reasons, including:

to deliver content that you have requested from the website;

to send e-mails that you have requested to receive from NW DAILY MARKER;

to provide you with information about services, products, and features that may be of interest to you.

we may from time to time send you special offers and advertisements for products or services offered by third parties. We will not disclose any of your personal information to such third parties when we do this; and

in response to inquiries that you initiate with us about any aspect of the website.

law enforcement authorities, government agencies, courts, or other entities, when:

we believe in good faith that the law requires it;

we deem it necessary or appropriate to provide such information; or

to otherwise protect our rights.

another business, in the course of a sale to or merger with such business; or

a court, another business, or other interested party in the event of a bankruptcy proceeding, in which case the information about you would be among the many assets shared or transferred.

Third-party merchants with from whom you choose to make a purchase through the Website

IV. HOW CAN YOU MAKE CHOICES ABOUT THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU?

You can always choose not to submit any personally identifiable information to NW DAILY MARKER.

If you do not wish to receive communications from NW DAILY MARKER, you can unsubscribe to our e-mails. We will include an opt-out link or reply address in each such e-mail. After unsubscribing, you will be removed from our database. Please allow us up to 10 business days to process your request. After unsubscribing, you may still receive messages about the status of your account, to resolve technical issues, or to confirm a new registration with us.

If you wish to make changes to any personally identifiable information that you have provided us, or if you have any questions about what we do with your personally identifiable information, please send an e-mail to privacy@NWDailyMarker.com.

V. LINKS TO OTHER (THIRD PARTY) WEBSITES

NW DAILY MARKER may provide links to content or advertisements created, offered, sponsored, or available at third party websites. Your interactions with these third party websites are not governed by this Privacy Policy, but rather the privacy policies posted on those linked websites. NW DAILY MARKER is not responsible for your access to and use of these websites or any information you may share with them.

VI. HOW DO WE SECURE YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION?

To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy, and ensure the appropriate use of the personally identifiable information we collect, we have implemented physical, electronic, and administrative procedures. These measures are based on commercially reasonable standards that similar companies use.

NO DATA TRANSMITTED OVER THE INTERNET, HOWEVER, CAN BE GUARANTEED TO BE 100% SECURE AT ALL TIMES. Although we have implemented security measures to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of such information.

VII. CHILDREN

This website is not directed to children. NW DAILY MARKER does not knowingly collect or solicit personally identifiable information from or about children under 13, except as permitted by law. If we discover that we have received any personally identifiable information from a child under 13, we will delete such information from our servers and records promptly.

VIII. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

NW DAILY MARKER reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time. Please check this page periodically for changes. We will post a notice on this website if and when this policy changes to alert visitors that a new policy is in place.

Any material – that is, really important – changes to the way we use or disclose personally identifiable information will only apply on a going-forward basis, unless we have your express consent to change the way we use or disclose the personally identifiable information we collected when the earlier version of this Privacy Policy was in effect.

IX. GOVERNING LAW

This Privacy Policy shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the Washington State without giving effect to any principles of conflicts of law.

You agree that any action at law or in equity arising out of or relating to this Privacy Policy shall be filed only in the state or federal courts in Washington State, and you hereby consent and submit exclusively to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purposes of litigating any such action. Either NW DAILY MARKER or you may demand that any dispute or claim between NW DAILY MARKER and you must be settled by arbitration utilizing the dispute resolution procedures of the American Arbitration Association (“AAA”) in Washington State. Both parties hereby acknowledge and agree to submit exclusively to the jurisdiction of the AAA in Washington State to resolve the applicable dispute or claim if arbitration is demanded. An arbitration demand, however, shall not prevent either party from seeking injunctive relief in a court of competent jurisdiction.